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February 2015 Book Club Nominations
![]() February 2015 Nominations Help us select the book that the MobileRead Book Club will read for February, 2015. The nominations will run through midnight EST January 31 or until 10 books have made the list. The poll will then be posted and will remain open for five days. Book selection category for February is: Romance In order for a book to be included in the poll it needs THREE NOMINATIONS (original nomination, a second and a third). How Does This Work? The Mobile Read Book Club (MRBC) is an informal club that requires nothing of you. Each month a book is selected by polling. On the last week of that month a discussion thread is started for the book. If you want to participate feel free. There is no need to "join" or sign up. All are welcome. How Does a Book Get Selected? Each book that is nominated will be listed in a poll at the end of the nomination period. The book that polls the most votes will be the official selection. How Many Nominations Can I Make? Each participant has 3 nominations. You can nominate a new book for consideration or nominate (second, third) one that has already been nominated by another person. How Do I Nominate a Book? Please just post a message with your nomination. If you are the FIRST to nominate a book, please try to provide an abstract to the book so others may consider their level of interest. How Do I Know What Has Been Nominated? Just follow the thread. This message will be updated with the status of the nominations as often as I can. If one is missed, please just post a message with a multi-quote of the 3 nominations and it will be added to the list ASAP. When is the Poll? The poll thread will open at the end of the nomination period, or once there have been 10 books with 3 nominations each. At that time a link to the initial poll thread will be posted here and this thread will be closed. The floor is open to nominations. Please comment if you discover a nomination is not available as an ebook in your area. Official choices with three nominations each: (1) The fault in Our Stars by John Green Goodreads | Amazon US / Barnes & Noble US / Google Play US / Kobo US / Overdrive UK / Overdrive US Spoiler:
(2) The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub / ePub (Complete Works) / Kindle | Feedbooks / Google Play / ManyBooks / Project Gutenberg Spoiler:
(3) Ali and Nino: A Love Story by Kurban Said Goodreads Spoiler:
(4) Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Amazon Australia Spoiler:
(5) Latakia by JF Smith Amazon Australia / SmashWords Spoiler:
(6) Tigers and Devils by Sean Kennedy Amazon Australia Spoiler:
(7) Echoes by Maeve Binchy Goodreads | Amazon UK / Amazon US / Barnes & Noble UK / Barnes & Noble US / Kobo Spoiler:
(8) Fighting Redemption by Kate McCarthy Goodreads Spoiler:
(9) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Patricia Clark Memorial Library: Kindle | Kobo Spoiler:
The nominations are now closed. Last edited by WT Sharpe; 02-01-2015 at 12:05 AM. Reason: Through post #76. |
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Bah, humbug!
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February 2015 Book Club Nominations
Wondering if a particular book is available in your country? The following spoiler contains a list of bookstores outside the United States you can search. If you don't see a bookstore on this list for your country, find one that is, send me the link via PM, and I'll add it to the list.
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*** The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton [readerlover, issybird, CRussel] Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub / ePub (Complete Works) / Kindle | Feedbooks / Google Play / ManyBooks / Project Gutenberg Spoiler:
** The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons [treadlightly, sun surfer] Goodreads | Amazon US / Kobo CA Spoiler:
*** Ali and Nino: A Love Story by Kurban Said [HomeInMyShoes, issybird, sun surfer] Goodreads Spoiler:
*** Fighting Redemption by Kate McCarthy [HomeInMyShoes, Lin2412, BelleZora] Goodreads Spoiler:
* The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks [WT Sharpe] Goodreads | Amazon Canada / Amazon UK / Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Google Play / Kobo / Overdrive Spoiler:
*** The fault in Our Stars by John Green [JSWolf, HomeInMyShoes, Moe The Cat] Goodreads | Amazon US / Barnes & Noble US / Google Play US / Kobo US / Overdrive UK / Overdrive US Spoiler:
*** Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë [crich70, Lin2412, fantasyfan] Patricia Clark Memorial Library: Kindle | Kobo Spoiler:
*** Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro [SeaWolf, sun surfer, pistoli] Amazon Australia Spoiler:
*** Latakia by JF Smith [SeaWolf, WT Sharpe, BelleZora] Amazon Australia / SmashWords Spoiler:
*** Tigers and Devils by Sean Kennedy [SeaWolf, Lin2412, Alsicole] Amazon Australia Spoiler:
* The Plum Tree by Ellen Marie Wiseman [drofgnal] No links provided. Spoiler:
*** Echoes by Maeve Binchy [Alsicole, BelleZora, ccowie] Goodreads | Amazon UK / Amazon US / Barnes & Noble UK / Barnes & Noble US / Kobo Spoiler:
The nominations are now closed. Last edited by WT Sharpe; 02-01-2015 at 12:06 AM. Reason: Through Post #76 |
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The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton. It's a classiic that should be in the MR Library. It's available on Google Play, Feedbooks, Amazon, Kobo US, Manybooks.net, Project Gutenberg, the MR Library, etc. Hope this helps someone who might be interested in the book. A book that anyone who likes romance novels or classics might enjoy!
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I nominate The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons.
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I'll nominate:
Ali and Nino by Kurban Said. Quote:
Fighting Redemption by Kate McCarthy. Quote:
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This looks interesting, and as the 1½ thousand people who gave it an average of 4½ stars on Amazon attest, a whole lot of people seem to think so as well. I therefore nominate The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks.
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Second Age of Innocence and Ali and Nino.
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I don't think any links should be allowed in the 2nd post unless it's a link to where to get the eBook. The Goodreads links aren't very useful as you cannot get the books linked from there. They are perfectly good in the nomination posts if they are not lumped in with links where to get the eBook.
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I'm going for something different this time. I'm going to nominate The fault in Our Stars by John Green. It has an average 4.41 (out of 5) stars on Goodreads with 1,285,489 ratings.
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Overdrive (US) FREE: https://www.overdrive.com/media/6631...t-in-our-stars Overdrive (UK) FREE: https://www.overdrive.com/media/8943...t-in-our-stars Kobo (US) $9.99: http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebo...in-our-stars-2 Barnes & Noble (US) $6.99: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-...=9781101569184 Google Play (US) $2.99: https://play.google.com/store/books/...d=UzqVUdEtLDwC Amazon (US) $2.99: http://www.amazon.com/Fault-Our-Star...t+in+our+stars Last edited by JSWolf; 01-21-2015 at 08:41 AM. |
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I nominate Jane Eyre
It's here at MR Kindle Not in epub )format (in English) here but easily converted to epub in Calibre. Or there is an epub copy available at Kobo for .99 Kobo Last edited by crich70; 01-21-2015 at 07:20 AM. |
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Nothing wrong with a Goodreads link in the nomination post. But the second post where the books are listed and the starts and the links, the Goodreads link doe snot belong as you cannot buy the eBook from Goodreads and thus, it's a bogus link there.
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I'll second The Fault in our Stars. It seems modern and romantic. I believe that is my last nomination.
I like the GoodReads link. It gives a synopsis and reasonable reviews as well as a breakdown of how a book is categorized. We all have our own stores we frequent for buying and we have people from all over here. Why just US and UK links JSWolf? What do you have against the frozen hinterland? ![]() I usually base my vote on synopsis and library availability. I am not averse to buying a title, but my budget is limited in comparison to many. |
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